Guard-rail.



No'. 782,443. PATBNTED FEB. 14, 190,5. J. FORD.

GUARD RAIL. APPLIOATI'ON HLED'Nov. 2s, 1901i.

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WI T NESSES UNITED STATns Patented February 14,1905.

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vGUARD-RAIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 782,443, datedr February 14, 1905.

Application led November 23,1904. Serial No. 233,951. y y

To all whom t may concern:

, Be it known that I, JAMES FORD, afcitizen of the United States, residing at Johnstown, in the county of Cambria and State of Pennsyl- Vania, have invented certain new and useful vImprovements in Guard-Rails; andIdo hereby and its su pportin-g chair or bracket; and certain of the objects of my invention are to provide a convenient and substantial arrangement of a guard-rail and its supporting-chair and to avoid the expensive work of planing the flanges or bases of either or both the track-rail and the guard rail. This planing -is necessary when the usual form of upright T-rail guard is used in order to obtain the required small distance in the clear between their respective heads, as is well understood by those skilled in the art of railway construction.

A further object of my invention is to utilize old or scrap rails for guard-rails, and thereby avoid the inconveniences and expense attendant upon the use of specially-prepared and new rails. I accomplish this object by arranging my improved T- rail guard with its iiange upright and adjacent to the head of the track-rail at the proper distance therefrom, with the ange of my T-rail guard serving as the guiding portion thereof, so that it is immaterial if the headoil said guard-rail be worn from previous service.

For the purpose of simplifying the description herein I have used the word track-rail to mean the usual rail upon which the wheels of railroad-cars rest and run as distinguished from the guard-rail, which in this casel serves to guide the wheels by means of side contact with them.

In general my inventionconsists of a T-rail placed on its side, with the base facing the track-rail and at the proper distance from it and supported by a suitably-formed chair, which affords a substantial seat and a rigid connection between said rail and the ties.

My chair may be formed from a bar of steel or iron rolled to the cross-section shown on the drawings and afterward cut into1 suitable lengths and the holes punched in same, or it may be forme-d from a fiat bar of iron or steel by pressing or shaping it, either hot'or cold, under a drop-hammer or other form' of metalbending machine, `and the holes therein may l be punched either before or after thev bending is performed. e

Having given a general description of my invention, I will now, in order to make the same more clear, `refer to the one sheet of drawings which forms part of this specification, andin which like figures refer to like parts. i, i

Figure 1 is a plan View of a portion of a railroad-crossing, showing a railway-frog and my improved guard-rail located opposite said frogfor the purpose of guiding the wheels therethrough.` Fig. 2 is a cross-section, on an enlarged scale, taken on line X X of Fig. 1, showing Ithe track-rail, my improved guardrail, and its supports. Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan view of my improved guard-rail chair. Referring now to the characters of reference on the drawings, 1 represents the railroad-bed. 2 represents ties which constitute the supports for the track-rails 8 and my improved guard-rail chair 6 and also the railway-frog 4,

,while 5 represents my guard-rail having a base or ange 12, the fiat side of said base or flange constituting the guiding-surface 'of my improved guard-rail.

6 represents the chair or support for the guard-rail 5.

7 is a hole in the chair 6. 8 is a corresponding hole in the rail 5. 9 is a bolt passed through said holes, thereby securing the rail 5 to the chair 6.

l() represents holes in the chair 6 for fasten'- ing the same to the tie 2 by means of the railspikes 11.

With the aid 'of my novel arrangement of a guard-rail and its supporting-chair a railwaycrossing can be installed by means of a regular track-laying outfit and without the employment of specially-planed guard-rails.

Although I have shown my invention in considerable detail, I do notlimit myself to the use of a T-rail only, nor to the exact and definite construction of the chair shown, but re- IOO serve the right to use any suitable rolled or Banged section or equivalent thereof embraced within the scope'of my invention as pointed out in the claims.

Having thus given a general description of my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure'by Letters Patent, is-

l. A railway guard-rail'comprising a T-rail resting on its side, with its base or flange facing and adjacent to the head of the track-rail, and a chair or bracket secured to and supporting said T-rail.

2. A railway'guard-rail'comprising a T-rai'l resting on its side,with its base or flange facing and adjacent to the head of the track-rail, said base or ange constituting the wearing-surface of said guard-rail, a chair or bracket secured to and forming a support for said T-rail, and means for securing said chair or bracket to the ties. Y

3. A railway guard-rail, comprising a T-rail resting on its side with its baseor flange adjacent to and facing the head of the track-rail, a chair having a seat which conforms to the shape of the side of the rail which rests upon it, means for connecting the said T-rail to the chair, and means for securing the chair to the ties.

4. A railway guard-rail comprising a T-rail resting on its side with its base or ange adjacent to and facing the track-rail and spaced the regular standard distance from the head thereof, a chair extending under and constituting a bearing-plate for the track-rail, said chair being provided with a seat formed integral therewith and shaped to fit-the side of said guard-rail, and means for securing said chair to its supporting roadway-tie and to the aforesaid T-rail.

5. The combination with a guard-rail of the class described, of a chair provided with a seat formed integral therewith and projecting upwardly therefrom substantially adjacent to the head of the track-rail, said seat being shaped to conform to the outline of the side of said guard-rail.resting.thereon, a hole in the upper portion of said seat for securing said guardrail thereto, the lower portion of said chair being fiat and adapted to restupon a railwaytie, and means vfor securing said chair thereto.

6. The combination with a track-rail and a guard-rail of the class described, of a chair formed of a pressed or rolled plate provided with flat lower surfaces, one of which extends under the base Hange of the track-rail, an upwardly-projecting seat formed integral with said chair and conforming to the outline of the side of the guard-rail resting thereon, and means for securing said chair to the roadway and to the guard-rail aforesaid.

In testimony whereof I hereto afx my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES FORD. Witnesses:

GEO. BEATTY, STONE EDELEN. 

